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Can flight search be improved? Three innovative sites that say yes
- cryptoz 16y ago"Can X be improved?" Anyone who says no to that question is being silly. Can't damn near everything be improved in some way or another? Especially something so universally hated as airline tickets...
- pealco 16y agoThe bicycle?
- billybob 16y agoIt could have a compartment for beef jerky.
- symesc 16y agoScore! Conversation over.
- cryptoz 16y agoThe bicycle has been constantly improved since its invention and will continue to be improved for a long, long time. For example, engineers and scientists are able to create new alloys that are lighter and stronger than previous iterations.
- conover 16y agoSome Yale engineering students created a "spoke-less" bicycle for a class recently. I thought it was pretty cool. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/b2g91/spokeless_bicycle/ http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/b2g91/spokeless_...
- billybob 16y agoGreat! Now, I'm a salesman, and I'm trying to plan a trip. I need to find the shortest route to visit each city...
- hubb 16y agogetting an nginx bad gateway message :(
- dhoe 16y agoSure. I've yet to find a site that allows me to say, I'm in Amsterdam and want to fly somewhere for 7 days in October for less than 500 Euro, show me some options and a facet navigation to drill down further. It's my most frequent use case, and I strongly suspect I'm not alone.
- dflock 16y agoMore people need to know about kayak.com/explore - it does exactly what you want - here's your exact query: http://www.kayak.com/explore/#/AMS?a=any&d=any&fb=60,560&l=any&ll=52.268157,4.746094&ns=n&s=0&t=-15,115&z=3 http://www.kayak.com/explore/#/AMS?a=any&d=any&fb=60...
- jka 16y agoHave you come across Skyscanner (www.skyscanner.net)? I'm an engineer there, so am a little biased - but this is exactly the type of question we try to solve. Would be interested to hear if you have any feedback/queries! i.e. http://www.skyscanner.net/flights-from/ams/1011/1011 http://www.skyscanner.net/flights-from/ams/1011/1011
- dhoe 16y agoIt's excellent, and I'm going to use it from now on. I was hoping somebody turning up saying "we've solved this" :)
- meatmanek 16y agoFlight search improvements, step 1: Allow time ranges to cross midnight. I shouldn't have to do 4 searches for "A flight that leaves sometime Friday night or Saturday morning, and returns Sunday night or Monday morning."
- swatermasysk 16y agoI have been using http://www.bing.com/travel/ http://www.bing.com/travel/ (was Farecast before MS acquired it) for a while now and it has easily saved me a couple thousand dollars on airline tickets. Highly recommend it although yapta does look interesting.